Barabanki, April 27 : Terming Congress as anti-Dalit, BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday accused the Nehru-Gandhi family of having always opposed Bhimrao Ambedkar as it did not want to see the Dalit leader in Parliament.

"Nehru-Gandhi family always opposed Dr Ambedkar and it did not want to see the Dalit leader in Parliament. This was why when he (Ambedkar) contested the Lok Sabha polls from Maharashtra, Congress fielded candidate against him", Mayawati said while addressing an election rally here.

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said Dr Ambedkar was opposed by the party when he contested election for becoming a member of the Constituent Assembly, which drafted the country`s Constitution.

Holding the party responsible for the demolition of the Babri mosque, she said had the Congress government acted timely the mosque could have been saved in 1992.

Highlighting achievements of the state goverment, she promised to provide reservation to the economically weak among the upper caste people and implement the Sachar Committee recommendations, if voted to power at the Centre.

She said that Congress and BJP were responsible for the under development of the country as both the parties thought only of the industrialists and business houses which fund their elections.

"Unlike BSP, which runs on the money collected from party workers, BJP and Congress get finance from industrialists and business houses and later oblige them", she alleged.